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View SlideshowRequest to buy this photoERIC ALBRECHT | DispatchGov. John Kasich, shown delivering his State of the State speech last month, is to unveil the legislation behind that speech’s policy proposals on Tuesday.

WOOSTER, Ohio — On Tuesday, two weeks and a day after speaking broadly about his policy agenda for 2014 in his State of the State speech, Gov. John Kasich will begin to talk details with legislators as his proposals are formally introduced.

Kasich’s plans to reduce the state’s top income-tax rate below 5 percent and pump $10 million into a new program to incorporate businesses and community groups into schools are almost certain to be in the governor’s large package of legislation.

Kasich said Tim Keen, his budget director, will testify in the House on Tuesday.

Last night, before speaking to Wayne County Republicans in Wooster, Kasich told reporters that some new proposals will be introduced as well. One is reductions in some regulatory oversight on businesses routinely found in good standing, and the other is “additional reforms in the area of welfare that I’m excited about, that we haven’t talked about.”

Statehouse watchers and legislators have been eager to see Kasich’s policy ideas in bill form. He has hinted at his plans in numerous public speeches since even before his State of the State speech on Feb. 24.

“I think we’ve made the mid-(biennium) review a part of Ohio’s culture, and that’s good,” Kasich said. “These are not things you just slop together. These are things that take time, and frankly, when we get this to the legislature, we’re going to need a lot of input from both Democrats and Republicans on some of the best ways we can work on a whole host of these issues, particularly in the area of education.”

Kasich said GOP Rep. Jeff McClain of Upper Sandusky will sponsor the bill, which probably will be “another thick one.”

But the governor also said the bill probably will be separated quickly into smaller pieces of legislation, and some of those might be taken up first in the Senate.

Republican Rep. Ron Amstutz of Wooster told reporters, “We have a responsibility to vet these proposals. Some proposals are pretty straightforward, but others take quite a bit of work. We’re going to give it that work.”

Kasich’s plan to roll back some regulatory oversight on businesses is something he hinted at last week in a speech to Licking County Republicans.

Last night, he said: “If somebody has been a consistent good player, there isn’t any reason (for regulators) to visit them as often as people who’ve had trouble.”

On welfare, Kasich might have given a hint to the Wooster-area Republicans when he served up perhaps the only comment meant to fire up the political fundraiser.

“We have created a system that dis-incentivizes people from going to work, and we must fix that,” he said, drawing a roar from the large GOP crowd.

Kasich, who is up for re-election this year, has largely stuck to biographical and policy talk in speeches to county Republican Party fundraisers in 2014.

Lauren Hitt, a spokeswoman for likely Democratic gubernatorial nominee Ed FitzGerald, said, “We certainly hope that Gov. Kasich will ask Democrats for input into his legislative agenda, because so far his policies have given tax cuts to the wealthy at the expense of the middle class.”